Māori Recent Picks

December 2004/January 2005

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	Choosing a Māori name for your baby, by Miriama Ohlson. (2004). Includes a pronunciation guide and background information about how Maori names have developed and been used over time. A good guide also for those interested to know the meaning and origin of Maori names.
	Gilbert Mair : Te Kooti's nemesis, by Ron Crosby. (2004). "...he was also a surveyor, land purchase agent and government interpreter ...He was one of the very few Pakeha to lead a Māori fighting unit, commanding the no. 1 Arawa Flying Column, with whom he spent several years in pursuit of the elusive Te Kooti." -inside front cover.

Nga himene, compiled by W. Tuerlings. (2004) (Words and Musical notation).
Comes with a computer disc which can be used to play the scores. Contents include favourites such as E te Atua ko koe nei ra, E te Atua kua ruia, E te toka ingoa nui, Kia waiata, Koutou katoa ra, Ma te marie, Tama ngakau, Whakaaria mai and many more in its 209 pages.

Kiwa : Pacific connections : Māori art from Aotearoa. Lincoln University. (2003)
(Sandy Adsett, Gabrielle Beiz, Israel Tangaroa Birch, Paerau Corneal, Todd Couper, Jolene Douglas, Lewis Gardiner, Steve Gibbs, Fred Graham, June Grant, Ross Hemera, Robert Jahnke, Riki Manuel, Hepi Maxwell, Alex Nathan, Manos Nathan, Darcy Nicholas, Saffronn Te Ratana, Rayne Robinson, Vicky Lee Hipora Stark, Ngati Taepa, Wi Taepa, Kerry Tamihana, Roi Toia, Colleen Urlich.)

Māori seats and constituencies and local authorities , by Pita Rikys. (2004)

The Mohaka ki Ahuriri report : Wai 201. 2 vols. (2004)

Tamihana Foundation ; colonialism and Christianity : papers presented on 23-24 May, 2003, Wellington. (2003)
P. 4. Christianity in the West by Bishop Muru Walters
P. 13. The legacy of Wiremu Tamihana by Duncan Roper
P. 53. The state in New Zealand by John Lepper
P. 80. The ugly face of colonialism by Petrus Simons
A conference to explore the legacy of Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi who in his independent study of the Bible, and particularly Chapters 16 and 17 of Deuteronomy, sought to confront the problems of Māori as well as the problems of the relationship between the English colonial government and Māori society. (Preface, p. 3).

Book chapters

The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders, edited by Donald Denoon, with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea and Karen Nero. (2004)
P. 164-172 The New Zealand wars and the Māori King movement, by Toon van Meijl.

Politics of indigeneity in the South Pacific : recent problems of identity in Oceania , edited by Erich Kolig and Hermann Muckler. (2004)
P. 47. Culture and crisis in Māori society : the tradition of other and the displacement of self, by Toon van Meijl
P. 73 The Māori iwi : contested meanings in comtemporary Aotearoa/ New Zealand, by Hal B. Levine.
Māori assertions of indigeneity : post-colonial traumatic stress disorder, and holocaust denial, by Michael Goldsmith.
P. 85. Guardians of nature or ecologists of the stomach? : the indigenous cultural revival in New Zealand, resource use and nature conservation, by Erich Kolig.

Gifted and talented : New Zealand perspectives, edited by Don McAlpine and Roger Moltzen. (2004)
Chap. 7. Gifted and talented Māori learners by Jill Bevan-Brown. P. 171-198.

Growing tall poppies : excellence in top New Zealanders, by Michele Cox. (2004)
p. 22. Dame Georgina Kirby
p. 108. Major General Jeremian Mateparae
p. 166 Graham Pryor

Born : midwives and women celebrate 100 years, by Halina Ogonowska-Coates. (2004)
p. 67. Mina Timu Timu (Te Atiawa, Ngati Rahiri).

Problem gambling : New Zealand perspectives on treatment, edited by Richard Tan & Susan Wurtzburg. (2004)
Chap. 15. Wāhine tupono : a kaupapa Māori intervention programme by Ruth Herd & Dianne Richards.

Remembering : writing oral history, edited by Anna Green and Megan Hutching. (2004)
Chap. 10. The past from the paepae : uses of the past in Māori oral history, by Danny Keenan.

Magazine Articles

Te Karaka ; Spring 2004.
P. 12 Main protagonists of the new Māori party (Tariana Turia, Pita Sharples, Whatarangi Winiata).
P. 27 Hanging out with Hone Tuwhare by Kelly Tikao.
P. 32 Māori entrepreneurs on a roll, by Chris Hutching, (Ian Taylor, Meke, Rick Fala,)
P. 36 Miriama Māori, by Mike McRoberts (Miriama Kamo)

New Zealand genealogist; September/October 2004.
P. 351 Whakapapa : where to start? By Bruce Mathers.
P. 357 Māori traditions and history of the great migration, by J. S. Free.

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